There will be vacancies in several CNS committees, including the Young Investigator Award Committee, the Symposium Committee,the Slide Session Committee, and the Poster Committee. The Cognitive Neuroscience Society invites you to nominate colleagues, who are members of CNS, to serve on any of these committees. Self-nominations are welcome too. Appointments are typically for a five year term.
Symposium Committee: In the fall you will review and accept/decline the symposium submissions for the 2012 meeting. You will work with the committee to create an interesting, cutting edge and balanced program based on the submitted proposals.
YIA Committee: In the fall you will review all YIA nominations and, as a group, choose two winners to be awarded this prestigious honor.
Slide Session Committee: In the fall you will review and accept/decline the slide submissions for the 2012 meeting. You will work with your committee to create sessions by specific topics. As a committee member you will also help to choose the 7 Graduate Students Present Award winners.
Poster Committee: In the fall you will review and accept/decline the poster submissions for the 2012 meeting. You will work with your committee to create balanced poster sessions for the annual meeting.
All nominees should hold a Ph.D. degree or equivalent, and have an appointment at a college, university or institute (research or clinical). Nominations should be accompanied by a curriculum vita and contact information.
Please email your nominations to cnsinfo@cogneurosociety.org and write Nominations in the subject line. Submit your nominations by July 14, 2011.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Discussion: The Rosetta Project
The Rosetta Project initiated by the Long Now Foundation (the same group building the 10,000 year clock in a mountain in Texas) has the aim to ensure that the knowledge contained in dying languages is preserved: "If languages are our how-to guides for living on planet Earth, we are handing our descendants an encyclopedia with almost all of the pages ripped out." An interesting interview with the PI can be read at FastCompany. In additional to digital repositories, I particularly like how there are also implementing a very low-tech solution - microetching linguistic data on a nickel disk - "microscopic pages of information formed in solid nickel, readable with 500 times magnification [which has] has parallel information like word lists, texts, grammatical information for as many human languages as we've been able to find this documentation--so far about 2,500." That metal disk will be around long after that last USB drive has gone the way of the dodo.
CFP: The Phonology of Contemporary English: Variation and Change @ Toulouse, France
University of Toulouse 2-Le Mirail, 1-2 March 2012
On 1st and 2nd March 2012, the CLLE-ERSS research institute (CNRS and University of Toulouse 2) will be organizing its first international conference on The Phonology of Contemporary English: Variation and Change.
Websites:
http://w3.pac.univ-tlse2.fr
http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr
http://clle.univ-tlse2.fr
The PAC project (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain: Usages, Variétés et Structure - The Phonology of Contemporary English: Usage, Varieties and Structure) is coordinated by Jacques Durand (University of Toulouse II) and Philip Carr (University of Montpellier III).
The main aims of the project can be summarised as follows: to give a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity (geographical, social and stylistic); to test phonological and phonetic models from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, making room for the systematic study of variation; to favour communication between specialists in speech and in phonological theory; to provide corpus-based data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language.
On 1st and 2nd March 2012, the CLLE-ERSS research institute (CNRS and University of Toulouse 2) will be organizing its first international conference on The Phonology of Contemporary English: Variation and Change.
Websites:
http://w3.pac.univ-tlse2.fr
http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr
http://clle.univ-tlse2.fr
The PAC project (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain: Usages, Variétés et Structure - The Phonology of Contemporary English: Usage, Varieties and Structure) is coordinated by Jacques Durand (University of Toulouse II) and Philip Carr (University of Montpellier III).
The main aims of the project can be summarised as follows: to give a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity (geographical, social and stylistic); to test phonological and phonetic models from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, making room for the systematic study of variation; to favour communication between specialists in speech and in phonological theory; to provide corpus-based data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language.
Monday, June 27, 2011
CFP: Deadline for NWAV40 @ Georgetown University
Abstract submission for NWAV40 continues through July 1st.
Please visit http://linguistics.
Please direct all inquiries to nwav40@gmail.com.
New Ways of Analyzing Variation returns to its birthplace – Georgetown University! This special anniversary conference, hosted by the Georgetown University Linguistics Department, will take place October 27-30, 2011.
All sociolinguists are interested in language variation. Some of us are counting and some of us are not, but all of us count. NWAV 40 aims to celebrate the quantitative, qualitative and eclectic approaches to the study of language variation and change that have given us so much insight over the decades, and to encourage further research from a wide range of perspectives, thereby further deepening our understanding of how language reflects and shapes personal identities, interpersonal interactions, group memberships, and social orders.
Please visit http://linguistics.
Please direct all inquiries to nwav40@gmail.com.
All sociolinguists are interested in language variation. Some of us are counting and some of us are not, but all of us count. NWAV 40 aims to celebrate the quantitative, qualitative and eclectic approaches to the study of language variation and change that have given us so much insight over the decades, and to encourage further research from a wide range of perspectives, thereby further deepening our understanding of how language reflects and shapes personal identities, interpersonal interactions, group memberships, and social orders.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
CFP: DGfS 2012 Workshop: Language Change and Age @ Frankfurt, Germany
Date: 06-Mar-2012 - 09-Mar-2012
Web Site: http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/annette.gerstenberg/dgfs/dgfs.htm
Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2011
Workshop: Language Change and Age - The factor age plays a central role in the study of language change. Many analyses – from Hermann Paul to David Lightfoot imply that language change is inherently generation-based. In this workshop we want to challenge the implicitness of this assumption and discuss if, and in how far, generation-based language change is compatible with our understanding of language as a complex diasystem: can language change possibly be determined by the factor speaker generation alone? Which causal factors (language acquisition, the lasting impact of a certain age group’s collective experience) justify such an assumption? Are speakers set on particular linguistic features for all of their adulthood lives?
The central reference point of our analyses is Labov’s (1994) division of language change into either (1) generation-based change (generational change) or (2) cross-generational change (communal change). Labov suggests that generation-based change typically leads to phonological and morphological change, whereas cross-generational change, which can be detected simultaneously across all speaker generations, tends to be associated with syntactic and lexical change (cf. Labov 1994: 84). We would like to discuss this hypothesis with colleagues from different fields of study and are looking forward to contributions on the following questions:
What experiences have been made with empirical studies of language change – both longitudinal- and cross-sectional (real time/apparent time) and what are reliable variables? In how far do other factors like social and spatial categories affect results? Which methodological implications arise from different applications of the notion of age? In which historical or contemporary contexts is it appropriate to talk about generational styles? Are particular phases during adulthood connected to specific linguistic patterns of language use – and what are the underlying social models of speaker biography? How can statistical-structural analyses be complemented by dynamic and process-like analyses, which take into account a speaker’s entire linguistic vita? How can linguistic change be modeled, taking into account correlations between the individual speaker, age group and speaker group?
Web Site: http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/annette.gerstenberg/dgfs/dgfs.htm
Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2011
Workshop: Language Change and Age - The factor age plays a central role in the study of language change. Many analyses – from Hermann Paul to David Lightfoot imply that language change is inherently generation-based. In this workshop we want to challenge the implicitness of this assumption and discuss if, and in how far, generation-based language change is compatible with our understanding of language as a complex diasystem: can language change possibly be determined by the factor speaker generation alone? Which causal factors (language acquisition, the lasting impact of a certain age group’s collective experience) justify such an assumption? Are speakers set on particular linguistic features for all of their adulthood lives?
The central reference point of our analyses is Labov’s (1994) division of language change into either (1) generation-based change (generational change) or (2) cross-generational change (communal change). Labov suggests that generation-based change typically leads to phonological and morphological change, whereas cross-generational change, which can be detected simultaneously across all speaker generations, tends to be associated with syntactic and lexical change (cf. Labov 1994: 84). We would like to discuss this hypothesis with colleagues from different fields of study and are looking forward to contributions on the following questions:
What experiences have been made with empirical studies of language change – both longitudinal- and cross-sectional (real time/apparent time) and what are reliable variables? In how far do other factors like social and spatial categories affect results? Which methodological implications arise from different applications of the notion of age? In which historical or contemporary contexts is it appropriate to talk about generational styles? Are particular phases during adulthood connected to specific linguistic patterns of language use – and what are the underlying social models of speaker biography? How can statistical-structural analyses be complemented by dynamic and process-like analyses, which take into account a speaker’s entire linguistic vita? How can linguistic change be modeled, taking into account correlations between the individual speaker, age group and speaker group?
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Announcement: LSA about attempt to eliminate the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) directorate at the NSF
Dear Colleagues,
The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice & Science (CJS) is considering changing the 2012 appropriation to eliminate the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) directorate at the NSF, which includes the Linguistics Program. The Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA), a coalition to which the LSA belongs supporting Federal funding for the social sciences, is encouraging its members to write to their House Representatives and Senators, urging the House to continue to support the human sciences at NSF. Having had the privilege of serving recently as one of the Assistant Directors of the NSF, heading up the SBE directorate, I want to endorse COSSA's request, believing that eliminating SBE would be disastrous for the human sciences in the US and for linguistics in particular.
So the LSA is now encouraging its members to write to their House Representatives and US Senators, ideally before the CJS Subcommittee meeting on 7 July, or before the full House Appropriations Committee meeting on 13 July, and at least before the floor discussion scheduled for the week of 25 July. You may want to copy Subcommittee Chair Frank Wolf R-VA and Ranking Member Chakah Fattah D-PA and perhaps other members of the Subcommittee (http://www.appropriations.
The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice & Science (CJS) is considering changing the 2012 appropriation to eliminate the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) directorate at the NSF, which includes the Linguistics Program. The Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA), a coalition to which the LSA belongs supporting Federal funding for the social sciences, is encouraging its members to write to their House Representatives and Senators, urging the House to continue to support the human sciences at NSF. Having had the privilege of serving recently as one of the Assistant Directors of the NSF, heading up the SBE directorate, I want to endorse COSSA's request, believing that eliminating SBE would be disastrous for the human sciences in the US and for linguistics in particular.
So the LSA is now encouraging its members to write to their House Representatives and US Senators, ideally before the CJS Subcommittee meeting on 7 July, or before the full House Appropriations Committee meeting on 13 July, and at least before the floor discussion scheduled for the week of 25 July. You may want to copy Subcommittee Chair Frank Wolf R-VA and Ranking Member Chakah Fattah D-PA and perhaps other members of the Subcommittee (http://www.appropriations.
CFP: Advanced Registration - Society for Neuroscience @ Washington, DC
Advance member registration and housing for Neuroscience 2011opens online on Wednesday, July 13 at noon EDT. Member registration is open only to active members. All others must wait until July 19 to register. Regular SfN members can save up to $215 on registration fees. To qualify for reduced member rates, you can join or renew your membership online before registering for the meeting.
Neuroscience 2011 is the place to share research and discovery with your scientific peers from around the globe. View the scheduled lectures, symposia, and workshops recently published in the 2011 Preliminary Program.
As an SfN member, you receive reduced registration rates, advance registration, and the opportunity to confirm hotel reservations one week earlier than nonmembers — plus the fantastic opportunity to network with your peers at the world's largest gathering of research scientists. View all membership benefits.
With more than 16,000 abstract submissions for presentation in poster sessions or nanosymposia, Neuroscience 2011 is sure to deliver a rich scientific program. Save time and money by renewing your membership now and registering in advance.
We look forward to seeing you in Washington, DC!
For questions about membership, contact membership@sfn.org or call (202) 962-4000
Neuroscience 2011 is the place to share research and discovery with your scientific peers from around the globe. View the scheduled lectures, symposia, and workshops recently published in the 2011 Preliminary Program.
As an SfN member, you receive reduced registration rates, advance registration, and the opportunity to confirm hotel reservations one week earlier than nonmembers — plus the fantastic opportunity to network with your peers at the world's largest gathering of research scientists. View all membership benefits.
With more than 16,000 abstract submissions for presentation in poster sessions or nanosymposia, Neuroscience 2011 is sure to deliver a rich scientific program. Save time and money by renewing your membership now and registering in advance.
We look forward to seeing you in Washington, DC!
For questions about membership, contact membership@sfn.org or call (202) 962-4000
CFP: NWAV Update
Abstract submission for NWAV40 continues through July 1st. Please visit http://linguistics.
JOBS: Postdoctoral Position @ the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School.
The NeuroCognition Lab at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging is offering a two-year NIMH-funded postdoctoral position in Multimodal Neuroimaging.
The position involves working on an exciting multimodal imaging project that examines the neural dynamics of semantic processing in healthy individuals and in patients with schizophrenia, using fMRI MEG and ERPs. Close collaborators include Drs. Gina Kuperberg, Ellen Lau and Matti Hamalainen.
A Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, or related fields is required. The successful candidate should have very strong technical and programming skills (familiarity with UNIX/LINUX operating systems, and statistical and analytic software MATLAB, SPSS, etc), and hands-on experience with collecting, analyzing and interpreting fMRI data. He/she should also be interested in learning how fMRI methods can be integrated with EEG and MEG methods. Experience in the research areas of language processing, semantic and episodic memory, executive function and/or the cognitive neuroscience of schizophrenia are desirable but not required.
Candidates will have access to the state-of-the-art multimodal brain imaging facilities at the Martinos Center (see http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.
Massachusetts General Hospital is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Full-time employees receive full benefits.
Please send
(1) a curriculum vitae
(2) a cover letter and statement of research experience, achievements and interests
(3) pdfs of papers published or submitted
to: Gina Kuperberg, M.D., Ph.D. by e-mail: kuperberg_research_position@
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
JOBS: Prof. of Psycholinguistics @ Univ. of Essex, UK
The Department of Language and Linguistics is seeking to appoint two people at Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer / Reader level with a background in linguistically-informed experimental research in any aspect of the acquisition or use of human language. The appointees will contribute to research and teaching in the field of Psycholinguistics, supervise undergraduate projects, MA dissertations and PhD theses and contribute to the successful administration of the Department. For appointment at Senior Lecturer/Reader level, candidates will provide research leadership in maintaining and developing the Department’s existing international reputation for linguistically-informed experimental psycholinguistics.
JOBS: Research Associate position - University College London (UCL)
Applications are invited for a research associate position at UCL to work with Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney and Prof. Bencie Woll. The aim of the research project is to explore language lateralisation in people who are born profoundly deaf using functional Transcranial Doppler sonography (fTCD). Training in fTCD and British Sign Language will be provided. This position is funded by an ESRC grant to the Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) research centre. The post-holder will be based at both DCAL and the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience . This post is offered initially for 24 months from 1st October 2011, or as soon as possible thereafter.Salary range: £31,905 - £38,594 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.For further details about the vacancy and how to apply on line please follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/63zdcjq.
For informal queries, please contact Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney: m.macsweeney@ucl.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0) 20 7679 1157.
Closing Date: 15/07/2011 by 5.00pm
Interview Date: 04/08/2011
For informal queries, please contact Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney: m.macsweeney@ucl.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0) 20 7679 1157.
Closing Date: 15/07/2011 by 5.00pm
Interview Date: 04/08/2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
CFP: Neurobiology of Language (deadline extension) @ Annapolis, MD
Due to some problems people have had with the abstract submission system, we have decided to extend the NLC abstract submission deadline to *June 25th*. Spread the word!
Date: 10-Nov-2011 - 11-Nov-2011
Date: 10-Nov-2011 - 11-Nov-2011
Meeting URL: http://www.neurolang.org
The neurobiology of language is fast becoming a major concern for neuroscientists, as new methodological developments now allow a robust neuroscientific investigation of processes as complex as language. The third annual conference of the newly established Society for the Neurobiology of Language will present the current status of research into the neurobiology of language, at the crossroads of neuroscience, linguistics, and experimental psychology with a topical emphasis on the interactions among brain, behavior, and language.
The conference boasts: special debate sessions where two leading experts go head to head in tackling timely and ‘hot’ topics in the field, keynotes featuring research aimed at broadening the scope of the neurolinguistic field, slide sessions highlighting the very best research, and plenty of possibilities for interaction. This interdisciplinary conference provides an annual opportunity to bring together researchers who are interested in the neurobiology of language, and offers a platform for junior and senior researchers to interact. The conference is being organised by the board of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Workshop on "Information Density and Linguistic Variation" @ Frankfurt, Germany
Frankfurt, Germany
March 6-9, 2012
https://dgfs.de/cgi-bin/dgfs.
Submission deadline: July 18, 2011
Description: In recent years, there has been growing interest in linguistic complexity in various areas of linguistics, including grammatical theory (Hawkins 2004), diachronic linguistics (e.g., Dahl 2004), phonetics (e.g., Chitoran et al. 2009), psycholinguistics (e.g., Jaeger 2010) as well as sociolinguistics (Trudgill 2011). While this has brought many new insights into selected aspects of language, we still do not have a conclusive picture of the role(s) linguistic complexity plays or should play in linguistic theory and in modeling linguistic processes. There are various perspectives from which linguistic complexity can be approached, including entropy, emergence, optimality or adaptivity. In the planned workshop, we propose to focus on the perspective of information density -- the average amount of information in a text or utterance as determined by its predictability -- and to explore its relation to one of the central features of the linguistic system, namely, variation.
We would like to address questions of the following kind: To what extent is linguistic variation governed by a desire for constant information density, thus putting limits on linguistic variation? In which ways is linguistic variation a precondition to (optimal) information density? How does information density at different linguistic levels (grammatical, phonological, etc) influence the options in the linguistic system within and across languages?
The workshop is intended to bring together scholars from different areas of linguistics, including syntax, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, contrastive linguistics, language typology, corpus linguistics (and others) who work on the relation of linguistic variation and linguistic complexity/ information density.
March 6-9, 2012
https://dgfs.de/cgi-bin/dgfs.
Submission deadline: July 18, 2011
Description: In recent years, there has been growing interest in linguistic complexity in various areas of linguistics, including grammatical theory (Hawkins 2004), diachronic linguistics (e.g., Dahl 2004), phonetics (e.g., Chitoran et al. 2009), psycholinguistics (e.g., Jaeger 2010) as well as sociolinguistics (Trudgill 2011). While this has brought many new insights into selected aspects of language, we still do not have a conclusive picture of the role(s) linguistic complexity plays or should play in linguistic theory and in modeling linguistic processes. There are various perspectives from which linguistic complexity can be approached, including entropy, emergence, optimality or adaptivity. In the planned workshop, we propose to focus on the perspective of information density -- the average amount of information in a text or utterance as determined by its predictability -- and to explore its relation to one of the central features of the linguistic system, namely, variation.
We would like to address questions of the following kind: To what extent is linguistic variation governed by a desire for constant information density, thus putting limits on linguistic variation? In which ways is linguistic variation a precondition to (optimal) information density? How does information density at different linguistic levels (grammatical, phonological, etc) influence the options in the linguistic system within and across languages?
The workshop is intended to bring together scholars from different areas of linguistics, including syntax, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, contrastive linguistics, language typology, corpus linguistics (and others) who work on the relation of linguistic variation and linguistic complexity/ information density.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Workshop on Sociophonetic Methodology @ Boulder, CO, USA
Date: 17-Jul-2011 - 20-Jul-2011
Meeting URL: https://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/workshops/WS7.html
Thanks to the burgeoning of free or low cost technical resources for acoustic analysis, a much larger, more diverse group of researchers can now conduct detailed phonetic analysis for a variety of linguistic studies; however, the speed with which these resources are being made available makes it difficult for most researchers to keep abreast of the best use of the new technology. This Workshop addresses these methodological needs by providing specialized training for advanced graduate students and professors in the fields of sociolinguistics, field phonetics, corpus linguistics, laboratory/experimental phonology, language documentation and preservation, language acquisition, and social interaction. The venue for the Workshop is the Linguistic Society of America 2011 Summer Institute, devised to permit students and faculty from a cross-section of all subfields to interact and learn from each other. While the Workshop supplements the organizers' Sociophonetics Institute course, everyone at the Institute will be invited to participate in the Workshop.
Meeting URL: https://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/workshops/WS7.html
Thanks to the burgeoning of free or low cost technical resources for acoustic analysis, a much larger, more diverse group of researchers can now conduct detailed phonetic analysis for a variety of linguistic studies; however, the speed with which these resources are being made available makes it difficult for most researchers to keep abreast of the best use of the new technology. This Workshop addresses these methodological needs by providing specialized training for advanced graduate students and professors in the fields of sociolinguistics, field phonetics, corpus linguistics, laboratory/experimental phonology, language documentation and preservation, language acquisition, and social interaction. The venue for the Workshop is the Linguistic Society of America 2011 Summer Institute, devised to permit students and faculty from a cross-section of all subfields to interact and learn from each other. While the Workshop supplements the organizers' Sociophonetics Institute course, everyone at the Institute will be invited to participate in the Workshop.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
CFP: New Perspectives on Language Creativity @ Montreal, Quebec, Canada
This conference addresses central issues on the computational procedure that gives rise to the discrete infinity of language from a biolinguistic perspective (Lenneberg 1967; Chomsky 1995, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2011; Chierchia 1995, 2004, 2006; Wexler 1996, 2003; Riemsdijk 1998, 2004; Jenkins 2000, 2004, 2011; Pica 2001, 2008; Yang 2002, 2011; Di Sciullo 2005; Pesetsky 2007, 2009; Piattelli-Palmarini & Uriagereka 2008; Friederici 2009; Friedrich & Friederici 2009; Hinzen 2009, 2011; Longobardi & Guardiano 2009, 2011; Di Sciullo et al. 2010; Larson, Déprez & Yamakido 2010; Mukherj 2010; Stabler 2010, 2011; Berwick & Larson 2011; Chomsky 2011; Di Sciullo & Boeckx 2011; Kosta 2011; Lasnik 2011, among other works). It aims to bring long lasting questions on language creativity into new light. It invites contributions on the properties of the composition operation and of the recursive procedure that might very well account for much of the progress made by the human species. It also invites contributions on the neuronal substrate of this computational procedure and raises the question whether this neuronal faculty sub serves grammar as well as other recursive systems, including mathematics and music. Finally, it invites contributions that deepen our understanding of the relations between biology and language impairments.
The questions raised thus include, without being limited to, the following:
What is the computational procedure giving rise to the discrete infinity of language?
What do we know about its neuronal substrate?
Why does this procedure seems to be limited in some cases, e.g. complements, and unbounded in other cases, e.g. adjuncts?
Does this computational procedure also sub serves mathematics and music?
How do interfaces propagate language creativity?
How does language creativity relate to the genetically attested language disorders and speech impairments?
The questions raised thus include, without being limited to, the following:
What is the computational procedure giving rise to the discrete infinity of language?
What do we know about its neuronal substrate?
Why does this procedure seems to be limited in some cases, e.g. complements, and unbounded in other cases, e.g. adjuncts?
Does this computational procedure also sub serves mathematics and music?
How do interfaces propagate language creativity?
How does language creativity relate to the genetically attested language disorders and speech impairments?
CFP: Sources of Individual Linguistic Differences @ Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
This conference will explore all sources of individual differences in linguistic competence and performance, paying special attention to the role of traits associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders, of which classic Autism and Asperger's Syndrome are the clearest subgroups, and how the study of autistic and autistic-like traits can inform and be informed by the scientific study of language. Variability that is related to the Autism Spectrum is of special interest to this conference, but we also appeal for studies of interspeaker variability in other domains.
The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers working on the linguistic consequences of individual variation, or the sources of variation, to present their current ideas and to provide a breeding ground for cross-framework and cross-disciplinary dialogues, and to ensure that each group of researchers is exposed to the state-of-the-art in adjacent fields. We hope the conference will facilitate collaboration among linguists, speech scientists, and cognitive scientists, to seek out better explanations for the nature of linguistic deficits and enhancements in different types of people, as well as to explore how better understanding of individual variation might advance linguistic theory via the investigation of variation in the fundamental (cognitive, physiological, social, etc.) underpinnings of language.
The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers working on the linguistic consequences of individual variation, or the sources of variation, to present their current ideas and to provide a breeding ground for cross-framework and cross-disciplinary dialogues, and to ensure that each group of researchers is exposed to the state-of-the-art in adjacent fields. We hope the conference will facilitate collaboration among linguists, speech scientists, and cognitive scientists, to seek out better explanations for the nature of linguistic deficits and enhancements in different types of people, as well as to explore how better understanding of individual variation might advance linguistic theory via the investigation of variation in the fundamental (cognitive, physiological, social, etc.) underpinnings of language.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
JOB: Postdoc & Research Technologist @ Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School
1) Postdoctoral Position at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School.
START DATE: Summer 2011. The NeuroCognition Lab at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging is offering a two-year NIMH-funded postdoctoral position in Multimodal Neuroimaging.
The position involves working on an exciting multimodal imaging project that examines the neural dynamics of semantic processing in healthy individuals and in patients with schizophrenia, using fMRI, MEG and ERPs. Close collaborators include Drs. Gina Kuperberg, Ellen Lau and Matti Hamalainen.
A Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, or related fields is required. The successful candidate should have very strong technical and programming skills (familiarity with UNIX/LINUX operating systems, and statistical and analytic software MATLAB, SPSS, etc), and hands-on experience with collecting, analyzing and interpreting fMRI data. He/she should also be interested in learning how fMRI methods can be integrated with EEG and MEG methods. Experience in the research areas of language processing, semantic and episodic memory, executive function and/or the cognitive neuroscience of schizophrenia are desirable but not required. Candidates will have access to the state-of-the-art multimodal brain imaging facilities at the Martinos Center (see http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/flashHome.php) and will have an exciting opportunity for training in multiple neuroimaging techniques, as well as how to apply basic cognitive neuroscience methods to asking important questions in patient populations. For more information about our lab see, http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/kuperberglab/
40 Fascinating Lectures for Linguistics Geeks
"Linguistics is kind of like The Force — it surrounds us, penetrates us and binds the galaxy together. Or at least the planet, anyway. Both this universality and frequent intersections with a diverse array of subjects — including, but not limited to, cognitive science, literature, politics, psychology, communication, anthropology and more — make linguistics a compelling, dynamic, nuanced study. The following lectures, by no means the only ones available online, represent a lovely little slice of how language permeates all things, for better and for worse." Here is a link to 40 video lectures touching on topics ranging from language evolution to the F-bomb.
JOB: Postdoc in Cog. neurophysiology of language @ Marseille, France
Applications are invited for a post-doc position funded by an ERC Starting Grant (European Research Council; PI: F.-Xavier Alario).The 5-year project LIPS examines the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in lexical information processing, combining theoretical cognitive psychology with chronometric measures of performance and neurophysiological recordings (EEG, MEG and intra-cranial EEG in epileptic populations).
The ideal candidates are highly motivated and creative individuals, capable of working independently and in groups. Previous experience with language processing research is welcome, but not a requirement. The working language is English. Individuals of all nationalities are encouraged to apply.
Postdoctoral position (2 to 4 years) in neurophysiological research The person will be responsible for conceiving and designing neurophysiological studies (EEG, MEG and/or sEEG), conducting data analysis and leading the write-up of scientific work. The person will have access to the imaging facilities on site or at the nearby Timone Hospital, and to the clinical expertise of the collaborating research group lead by Catherine Liégeois-Chauvel (details below). REQUIREMENTS: well established expertise with one or more of these techniques and analysis methods, a solid background in cognitive neurophysiology, published articles in international scientific journals, excellent oral and written English skills. HELPFUL: knowledge of processing models for language or other higher cognitive functions, R/Matlab programming.
The ideal candidates are highly motivated and creative individuals, capable of working independently and in groups. Previous experience with language processing research is welcome, but not a requirement. The working language is English. Individuals of all nationalities are encouraged to apply.
Postdoctoral position (2 to 4 years) in neurophysiological research The person will be responsible for conceiving and designing neurophysiological studies (EEG, MEG and/or sEEG), conducting data analysis and leading the write-up of scientific work. The person will have access to the imaging facilities on site or at the nearby Timone Hospital, and to the clinical expertise of the collaborating research group lead by Catherine Liégeois-Chauvel (details below). REQUIREMENTS: well established expertise with one or more of these techniques and analysis methods, a solid background in cognitive neurophysiology, published articles in international scientific journals, excellent oral and written English skills. HELPFUL: knowledge of processing models for language or other higher cognitive functions, R/Matlab programming.
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